The Hydrogen Revolution

A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy

By: Marco Alverà

Narrated by: Matthew Spencer

An energy expert shows why hydrogen can fight climate change and become the fuel of the future.

We’re constantly told that our planet is in crisis; that to save it, we must stop traveling, stop eating meat, even stop having children. But in The Hydrogen Revolution, Marco Alverà argues that we don’t need to upend our lives. We just need a new kind of fuel: hydrogen. From transportation and infrastructure to heating and electricity, hydrogen could eliminate fossil fuels, boost economic growth, and encourage global action on climate change. It could also solve the most bedeviling aspects of today’s renewable energy - from transporting and storing wind and solar energy and their vulnerability to weather changes to the inefficiency and limited utility of heavy, short-lasting batteries.

The Hydrogen Revolution isn’t just a manifesto for a powerful new technology. It’s a hopeful reminder that despite the gloomy headlines about the fate of our planet, there’s still an opportunity to turn things around.

©2021 Marco Alverà (P)2021 Basic Books

Critic reviews

“Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alverà spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition, and who can do what right now to kick it over the line.” (Mike Berners-Lee, author of There Is No Planet B)

Great book to start into hydrogen technology

This book explored many different avenues and aspects fo hydrogen technology for its day. it also showed the shear age of hydrogen and how it has been known for centuries but is just now being developed like it is. I want to commend the author on their research and knowledge of hydrogen as well as being able to display it in an averagely understandable manner. the only down side to this book was the utopian view of how hydrogen will save the world. It has immeasurable opportunities but they all will not come true at the same time. But we can dream i guess. Great book and would recommend to anyone trying to learn more about hydrogen.

Eye-opening

Great information source on hydrogen power, it’s various forms, and its huge potential. I have recently taken an interest in hydrogen and it’s potential. The publication is a wealth of knowledge and provides a good understanding of the current state of progress in different parts of the world. Very convincing plan is shared to transform the energy structure. I plan to acquire the written form as well. I’m very glad I found this publication.

absolutely brilliant! I love everything about it!

This is the future I imagine! I can't wait to listen to it again! The Hydrogen

Hydrogen fuel one of many energy sources of the future

Well written and makes you understand how close we are to making hydrogen energy cheaper. Don’t agree with using carbon taxes to push us there. Hydrogen will be one of the many sources of energy in our future. With all the talk of climate change we need the find many sources of clean energy and hydrogen is differently one major source.

Well done

I loved it. As a man of wild imagination, I wonder what is fully possible in this realm. I would love to hear more on this topic, from this author. The author spans an array of material in only just under eight hours.

Hopeful and realistic future

The author laid out his case chapter by chapter, so that I started out a skeptic and ended a believer. One of the more hopeful books for anyone who needs some good news that is also based in reality.

A Great marketing book

This guy will sell you a homestead in a swamp. Reality is replaced by possible,could, might, should as well as subsidies, taxes and credits. For a dose of reality one should read any of the books by Vaclav Smil that have true scientific basis. If we repeat a lie often enough, we still can’t make it true. Cheap renewables have resulted in German paying 4 time higher electricity rates than the US and those same renewables raise my electricity rates every time there is a legislative mandate to increase their use. One should remember that the subsides and supports from the government come from taxes taken from the citizens.

Dreaming of a great future, but lacking of fundamental physics, thermodynamics, chemistry knowledge, a bit of disappointment .

Marco has a vision and he shares very good points on how to (when we get there) make economical and financial sense of the opportunity to transition into hydrogen as a main fuel.

The business case, and the strategies are all sound , however, the very first layer of technical boundaries are obviously shrouded on his knowledge.

All things considered, I do support Marcos vision